“It is all right your saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you.”
~ Sherwood Anderson
Live unselfishly
September 10, 2008 | 6 comments
September 10, 2008 | 6 comments
“It is all right your saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you.”
~ Sherwood Anderson
Wow. I sometimes think that I don’t need other people, especially when I’m feeling hurt.
But the thought that other people need me. It always moves me to tears. It makes me feel needed when I often think that I’m not.
Thanks.
What do you do if you feel like other people (loved ones)don’t need you? Is it being selfish if you feel you’re not getting enough attention from your spouse?
The comment about not feeling loved is an interesting one. Often, when I’m feeling left out or not appreciated, I find it’s because I’m expecting others to make me “okay” instead of realizing that I’m extremely valuable to God as one of his many, many expressions. of good. It tends to make me reach out to others–to help them be successful and help them feel loved. In fact, at work, we often talk about how we can make others successful or bring out the best in others. The more I focus on others and the good in them, the more this seems to flow back to me and make me realize one of my purposes is to be there for others and to love them. Funny how that helps me feel loved myself.
I’ve discovered that the more I’ve learned about what it REALLY means to be spiritually-minded and live that in my day-to-day interactions, the less I think about the materially personal sense of myself.
At those times of living at one with my spiritual selfhood I have felt more satisfied than at any time in my life and it doesn’t matter what people around me are doing or not doing.
I didn’t know what true satisfaction was before these experiences. It’s a much more fun way to live!
Nice comments!
“Love is reflected in love,” is one of my favorite quotes from Mary Baker Eddy.
I too find, that if I focus on the other person and what I’d like to have from them, efforts become futile and can lead to even more disappointment and frustration. The better way is to concentrate on living a life of love myself. The love I reflect to others comes back to me. The love I reflect and live makes me feel complete and whole. And that’s the way it should be. Other people do not make us. God made us. Our job is to live true to the complete whole person we already are.
Since taking class, the need for expressing Father Mother God has increased in sharing spiritual love for many I have had a chance to assist them through their thinking in handling material beliefs.
It is most rewarding